[Coco] Help with Drivewire

Sun Jun 24 17:20:35 EDT 2018

How is not cheaper to just buy a cocosdc ? No eeprom needed no programmer
needed.  It works in a cooc 2 or a 3, it acts as a floppy drive better than
drivewire also.

On Sun, Jun 24, 2018, 5:16 PM Al Hartman <alhartman6 at verizon.net> wrote:

> Why wouldn't you just buy an already burned EPROM from Cloud 9 with the
> Coco 2 version of Drivewire 3?
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> Then, build the cartridge board, pop in the EPROM, and off you go!
>
> You always seem to try to take the most difficult route.
>
> -[ Al ]-
> On 6/24/2018 4:51:17 PM, Jack Carpenter via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> wrote:
> I found this EPROM from eBay EPROM, 27C64A-15F, 64K (8K x 8) 150ns, 5
> Volt, 28-pin Dip 5 Volt 27C64 | eBay will it work or not? I still need to
> find away to program it.
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> On Sunday, June 24, 2018, 8:35:57 PM GMT, Gene Heskett wrote:
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> On Sunday 24 June 2018 13:59:33 rietveld rietveld wrote:
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> > Connect the coco cassette cable to the headphone jack on your' PC.
> > Download DW and play the file using your computers media player.  It
> > will load the same, or better, than playing it on a cassette
> >
> I can't emphasize enough that this is a better way. The signal to noise
> and distortion of the cassette recorder is 30 to 40 db worse than the
> signal to noise and distortion of the pc's audio channel. Whereas the
> cassette load is often done poorly and the volume setting on the
> cassette is very critical, the pc's lack of the cassettes dc bias noise
> makes a perfect load 99.9% of the time.
>
> The presence of an ac bias circuit in a cassette recorder was a huge
> advertising advantage, and raised the price of a cassette recorder out
> of the means of most who did not grok that the difference in price was
> worth every cent of the increased cost. I had one once, paid nearly $150
> in 1985 dollars for it, but my kids found out it just worked and wrecked
> it in a week. I never bought them anything better than a $20 mayfair
> from then on.
>
> Use the pc's audio, it Just Works(TM). Leave the cassette recorder in the
> rusty mists of time where it has belonged since the 1970's.
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> >
> > Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
> >  Original Message
> > From: Jack Carpenter via Coco
> > Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2018 1:50 PM
> > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts I don't
> > Reply To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> > Cc: Jack Carpenter
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] Help with Drivewire
> >
> >
> >  I don't have a Tape Player I order a Cassette cable off of eBay.
> >
> >    On Sunday, June 24, 2018, 5:43:39 PM GMT, Kevin Becker
> > wrote:
> >
> >  In the short term you can load load HDBDOS from cassette without
> > needing to burn a custom EPROM
> >
> > > On Jun 24, 2018, at 12:34 PM, Jack Carpenter via Coco
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > That was my plans some day and it on my list.
> > >
> > >
> > >   On Sunday, June 24, 2018, 4:17:00 PM GMT, Michael Brant
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > Best option is to get a cocosdc. It has dw compatile dos in the rom.
> > > Thezippsterzone.com email Ed aka zippster there.
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jun 24, 2018, 11:47 AM Jack Carpenter via Coco
> > >
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I belong to Vintage Computer Forum and told where to find what I
> > >> needed so I did.
> > >>
> > >> I had a Color Computer 2 about 35 years ago and I wanted to get
> > >> back into it so I bought another one a few weeks ago. And wanted to
> > >> hook up Drivewire but I need help programming a EPROM I getting
> > >> this board from NF6X he made for the Coco1 2 and 3 but not sure
> > >> what 28 pin EPROM I need.
> > >>
> > >> And what files I need. Here is a list.
> > >>
> > >> dw3dos_dsk_cc1.rom
> > >> dw3dos_dsk_cc2.rom
> > >> dw3dos_dsk_cc3.rom
> > >> dw3dos_mb_cc1.rom
> > >> dw3dos_mb_cc2.rom
> > >> dw3dos_mb_cc3.rom
> > >> hdbdosdw3cc1.rom
> > >> hdbdosdw3cc2.rom*
> > >> hdbdosdw3cc3.rom*
> > >>
> > >> Is there a EPROM programmer anyone know of?
> > >>
> > >> I need a cheap because I am on SS and tight fixed income.
> > >>
> > >> Any help would be great.
> > >>
> > >> Jack
> > >>
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